We'll place her in the midst of us, to join us in our plays, I'm sure my friends will be so pleased to see her funny ways. I'll teach her all the lessons that my mother taught me once, I know my little Ellen will never be a dunce; But if she should be rather slow in learning A B C, I must have patience with her, as my mother had with me. I'll say a morning prayer with her, when first she sees the light, And sing the evening hymn to her before she sleeps at night; I'll talk to her of God above, who gives us all we have, And tell her, too, of Jesus Christ, who died our souls to save. They laugh, and say I'm but a girl; yet I shall older grow, And still be learning something, while I teach her what I know; So they may laugh, my Ellen dear, for as I look at you, I seem almost a woman, when I think of what I'll do.-From the CHILD'S Own Book. LITTLE CHILDREN, LOVE ONE ANOTHER. A LITTLE girl, with a happy look, Sat slowly reading a ponderous book, All bound with velvet, and edged with gold, And every day she prized it more; For it said and she looked at her smiling motherIt said, "Little children, love one another." She thought it was beautiful in the book, So, mamma, I'll be kind to my darling brother, I'm sorry he's naughty, and will not play, The little girl did as her Bible taught, And pleasant, indeed, was the change it wrought; THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE. STAY, lady, stay, for mercy's sake, And my brave father's hope and joy ; Poor, foolish child! how pleased was I, And see the lighted windows flame! 66 The people's shouts were long and loud, "What is an orphan boy?" I cried, "You'll know too soon, ill-fated child! Oh! were I by your bounty fed! Your happy, happy orphan boy !—MRS. OPIE. TRYING. By frequent trying Troy was won. THE WIDOW. I KNEW a widow very poor, And very hard this widow toiled To feed her children four, An honest pride the woman felt, To labour she would leave her home, And glad was she, when she could get And this was all the children had On any day to eat ; They drank their water, ate their bread, But never tasted meat. One day when snow was falling fast, I thought that I would go and see |